Places thelibyandesert Wants to Go

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.